TNB Tech Minute: Amazon Reports 13% Jump in Revenue
WSJ Tech News Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
4.3 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2025
⏱️ 2 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Boardrooms love buzzwords. AI, climate, resilience. But what do they actually mean for CFOs and |
| 0:06.1 | execs trying to survive the next earnings call? That's where the pre-read comes in. Real experts and real talk. |
| 0:11.7 | Subscribe to the pre-read, presented by Workieva. Here's your afternoon TNB Tech Minute for Thursday, October 30th. I'm Julie Chang for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:23.5 | Amazon has reported rising revenue and profit for the third quarter, propelled by strong retail sales and ongoing growth in its cloud computing and artificial intelligence business. |
| 0:34.1 | Net profit rose 39% for the period, hitting $21.2 billion. The company said Amazon Web Services |
| 0:41.3 | is growing at its fastest rate since 2022, with revenue from AWS climbing 20% for the quarter. |
| 0:48.9 | The stock rose in after-hours trading. In more earnings news, it was a record September quarter for Apple sales, |
| 0:56.0 | driven by strong demand for the new iPhone 17 and continued growth in the company's services |
| 1:01.3 | business, which hit a milestone. It surpassed $100 billion in revenue for the fiscal year that |
| 1:07.2 | ended in September. Total revenue for the quarter came in at $102.5 billion, about 8% |
| 1:13.6 | higher than the year ago period and slightly above Wall Street expectations. News Corp, |
| 1:19.0 | owner of the Wall Street Journal, has a commercial agreement to supply news through Apple services. |
| 1:25.3 | And YouTube TV is in a showdown with Disney. |
| 1:29.6 | Disney, which owns ABC, ESPN, and FX, could be on the verge of having its networks |
| 1:35.0 | go dark on YouTube TV. |
| 1:37.3 | YouTube TV is the pay TV platform with a growing base of about 10 million subscribers. |
| 1:42.8 | The two have been negotiating over fees Disney wants |
| 1:45.7 | YouTube TV to pay for ESPN and other channels. They're also budding heads on contract length. |
| 1:51.6 | The current agreement between the two companies expires at midnight tonight. Disney is the latest |
| 1:56.7 | media conglomerate to be in a dispute with YouTube TV. Others include Comcast's NBC Universal, Fox, and Televisa Univision. |
| 2:05.2 | For a deeper dive into what's happening in tech, check out Friday's Tech News Briefing podcast. |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Wall Street Journal, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of The Wall Street Journal and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.